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Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Christo Sims
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Description for Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Hardback. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age. Ethnographer Christo Sims documented the life of the school from its planning stages to the graduation of its first eighth-grade class. Disruptive Fixation is his account of how this "school for digital kids," heralded as a model of tech-driven educational reform, reverted to a more conventional type of schooling with rote ... Read more
In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age. Ethnographer Christo Sims documented the life of the school from its planning stages to the graduation of its first eighth-grade class. Disruptive Fixation is his account of how this "school for digital kids," heralded as a model of tech-driven educational reform, reverted to a more conventional type of schooling with rote ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163987
SKU
V9780691163987
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About Christo Sims
Christo Sims is assistant professor of communication and a founding member of the Studio for Ethnographic Design at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
"Winner of the 2018 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" "Anyone holding Sims’s book will have at hand— literally—a reminder of how reformers’ dreams of using technology’s magical power to shape a perfect future tend to persist, even in the face of real-world constraints and ethical concerns."
-Amy Sue Bix, Technology and ... Read more
-Amy Sue Bix, Technology and ... Read more